Franz Schlegelberger
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Louis Rudolph Franz Schlegelberger was State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice who served as Justice Minister during the Third Reich. He was the highest-ranking defendant at the Judges
Schlegelberger (aged 71) at the Nuremberg Judges' Trial
A meeting of four Nazis who bore much of the responsibility for allowing the legal system of Germany to be taken over by Nazi ideology. Franz Schlegelberger is second from left. On the far left in this image is Roland Freisler. Otto Thierack is the second from the right, and Curt Rothenberger is on the far right.
Otto Georg Thierack
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Otto Georg Thierack was a German Nazi jurist and politician.
Franz Schlegelberger
…prone. After Franz Gürtner's death in 1941, Schlegelberger became provisional Reich Minister of Justice for the years 1941 and 1942, followed then by Otto Thierack. During his time in office the number of death sentences rose sharply. He authored the bills such as the so-called Poland Penal Law Provision…
Thierack in 1940
Otto Thierack (right) with Judge Roland Freisler at the end of August 1942